ABOUT SPACE~Contemporary Abstraction

The University of Wisconsin – River Falls Art
Department presents: About Space~Contemporary
Abstraction.Minnesotaartists Betsy Byers, Karen Gustafson and Zoë Shulman will be exhibiting their
contemporary artwork at this event. Curated by University of WI-River Falls Art
Department faculty Jeannine Kitzhaber and Lyz Wendland, the three artists were
chosen for their work because it expands the contemporary boundaries of space
and abstraction. Ms. Byers is a Professor
of Art for Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN where she teaches
Printmaking and Painting. With her paintings she is interested in the, “relationships that
embody our intimate experience with the environment in an abstract form”. Karen
Gustafson is a Professor of Art for Normandale Community College in
Bloomington, MN, where she teaches Drawing and Painting. Gustafson’s works on
paper are intense correlations of science and art that reveals the “underlying structures
and patterns to research, reveal, and inform”. Zoë Shulman is a recent
graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her post-modern work is both
two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Shulman is interested in finding truth
in how she perceives and reconstructs her world. All three artists are prolific
in their fields and utilize contemporary and formal relationships of space in their
art.